“She found herself over a long and treacherous road and the more treacherous the road became, the more of herself she found.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Those letters under the door A new life The war at a distance and my drinking glass that smokes A brightness crowns… — Paul Dermée Copy Share Image
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“She was broken. And i know,her heart can be repaired again. not by the "roses" and "chocolates" But by the "truths" and… — seerat ahuja Copy Share Image
“Today I write, riots with insite! Tomorrow I read, take the lead! Sometimes I sleep, health to keep! But for now I… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Two seeds destined to grow in concert, planted together in the field of love.’” She took in a lungful of air and… — Christina Lee Copy Share Image
It was a gloomy day, Young boy walking on a narrow street. Felt someone following him, So all he heard was his… — Vladimir Cius Copy Share Image
“She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
“And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“The scariest thing about depression is how normal it starts to feel. How silence becomes your native language. How disappearing starts to… — Chloe Holland Dicks Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of… — James Welch Copy Share Image
“Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“When I am dead, even then, I will still love you, I will wait in these poems, When I am dead, even… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Beginnings are dreary, and endings too hard, spirit of life is always vast, neither do we meet, nor do we part, the… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art… — Jane Cooper Copy Share Image
“Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay;” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We are not what we might be; what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here:… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Grief is my shadow, Love is my light, I keep the pain where it belongs, behind me, as I move forward loving… — Vladislas Nikilovic Copy Share Image
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“Here are the skies, the planets seven, And all the starry train: Content you with the mimic heaven, And on the earth… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“The prompt didn’t help me much, since all poems were difficult for me to write. They were like mirrors you held up… — Brittany Cavallaro Copy Share Image
“There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach in a hangman’s noose. It is this same… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
